PVC Kitty Condo

Introduction: PVC Kitty Condo

I woke in the middle of the night to rustling and commotion coming from the direction of my closet and dresser within. Not wanting to care about it, I rolled over and went back to sleep. When I re-awakened in the morning, it was time to investigate. What I found really shouldn't have surprised me. One of my cats (the one above) had pulled out one of my dresser drawers and turned it and the clothes inside into his own private cozy cave.

It's hard to be mad when he was so clearly very happy. But kitty nest in my dresser clearly wasn't a good option long term, so my brain started chugging away on what I could build instead. I've often mulled the possibility of making a cat tree out of modular PVC pipe, cloth, etc. A small kitty condo was a perfect small scale project to test those ideas out. At about $20 and 20 minutes of work later, the PVC Kitty Condo was born.

Step 3: T-Shirt Covering

Take your t-shirt and center the bottom over one end the kitty condo. Slide it down evenly so you end up with the head hole centered at one end of the condo. This will leave you with just a bit of extra fabric at the other end. You may need to stretch the t-shirt a bit.

You can leave it at this point of even safety pin the hem around the PVC for easy removal of the t-shirt. I decided to make it a bit more permanent and used some heavy thread to whip stitch through the edge of the shirt and around the PVC pipe. This was essential after my cat decided that the top of the condo was a great place to hangout as well as the inside.